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REFERENCE PAGE
SOURCES
This essay is largely based on material in the 2012 documentary The Eye Has to Travel, produced and directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland, spouse of Diana Vreeland’s grandson, Alexander Vreeland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Vreeland:_The_Eye_Has_to_Travel
The Ballets Russes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballets_Russes
Diana Vreeland, pupil of Michel Fokine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Vreeland
DV studied ballet under choreographer Michel Fokine
New York Times | The Lady in Red by Diane Rafferty | Dec. 15, 2002
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/15/books/the-lady-in-red.html
Anna Pavlova and Folk Dances
https://www.streetswing.com/histmai2/d2pavlva1.htm
The Gavotte
https://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z3gavot.htm
George Plimpton conversations
https://www.wmagazine.com/story/diana-vreeland-fashion-writer-editor-and-curator/
D.V. Memoir: Chris Hemphill And George Plimpton
Diana Vreeland: A Bravura Style by John Duka | June 3, 1984
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/03/style/diana-vreeland-a-bravura-style.html
DV memoir dictation to George Plimpton
‘Diana Vreeland’ measures impact of a fashion pioneer by Joe Williams | Jan 24, 2013
https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/diana-vreeland-measures-impact-of-a-fashion-pioneer/article_8c23bedb-9ac6-577f-8494-6c653f944e69.html
Diana Vreeland biographical info
Obituary on Diana Vreeland | The New York Times Archives by Bernadine Morris | Aug. 23, 1989
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/23/obituaries/diana-vreeland-editor-dies-voice-of-fashion-for-decades.html
The Dick Cavett Show with guest Diana Vreeland (date reference)
New York Times | Television | May 8, 1978
https://www.nytimes.com/1978/05/08/archives/television-morning-afternoon-evening.html
Love in the Afternoon, script segment
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050658/characters/nm0000030
Carmel Snow discovering Diana Vreeland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmel_Snow
Diana Vreeland: The Modern Woman: The Bazaar Years, 1936-1962 (excerpt)
https://www.amazon.com/Diana-Vreeland-Modern-Bazaar-1936-1962/dp/0847846083
DV on Imagination
“I think your imagination is your reality,” she’d say, “Only what you imagine is real.”
Post by Kurt Thometz of The Private Library | March 27, 2012
http://www.the-private-library.com/2012/03/27/from-the-library-of-diana-vreeland-2/
NY Times 1984 archive article by John Duka:
”I think your imagination is your reality,” she said. ”Only what you imagine is real…” –DV
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/03/style/diana-vreeland-a-bravura-style.html
Josephine Baker & “American Women of Style” Exhibition
New York Times Fashion by Phyllis Feldkamp | December 7, 1975
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/07/archives/fashion.html
Style Maven: Diana Vreeland and the Met (Part 5) IMF.blog post | June 13, 2013
http://inmyfashion.blogspot.com/2013/06/style-maven-diana-vreeland-and-met-part_13.html
Lillian Bassman
https://artanddesigninspiration.com/the-mistress-of-the-darkroom-lillian-bassman/
Evelyn Tripp (model in Lillian Bassman photo)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Tripp
Met Gala
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Met_Gala
Simon Doonan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Doonan
Vaslav Nijinsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaslav_Nijinsky
IMAGE SOURCES
Diana Vreeland early years, Victoria era
screenshot from The Eye Has to Travel (2012)
Russian choreographer Mikhail Fokin
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw174476/Michel-Fokine
Sergei Diaghilev and company at Grand Opera in Paris
https://tass.ru/spec/sergei_dyagilev
Diana Vreeland in turban
https://fortuny.visitmuve.it/en/mostre-en/archivio-mostre-en/diana-vreeland-after-diana-vreeland/2012/03/4979/project-2/
Diana Vreeland in turban (descriptive info)
https://www.jckonline.com/magazine-article/cross-wearer-diana-vreelands-chanel-brooches/
Audrey Hepburn in Harper’s Bazaar spread, September 1959
https://www.phillips.com/detail/richard-avedon/NY040212/33
Diana with her husband
screenshot from The Eye Has to Travel (2012)
Coco Chanel in early 1900’s
screenshot from The Eye Has to Travel (2012)
Diana with Carmel Snow (image and caption text)
https://pleasurephotoroom.wordpress.com/tag/diana-vreeland/
Josephine Baker in 1920s
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/314337248974659589/
Josephine Baker exhibit in Costume Institute’s “American Women of Style” (1975-76)
screenshot from The Eye Has to Travel (2012)
Lillian Bassman photo of model Evelyn Tripp in Barbados (1954)
https://surroundedfashionblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/the-works-of-lillian-bassman/
Lillian Bassman photo of model Evelyn Tripp in Barbados (1954); image reference text
https://pleasurephoto.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/evelyn-tripp-in-swimming-by-claire-mccardell-photo-by-lillian-bassman-barbados-1954/
China Machado in Harper’s Bazaar, February 1959
screenshot from The Eye Has to Travel (2012)
China Machado in Harper’s Bazaar, February 1959 – caption reference
https://blog.pattern-vault.com/2016/12/28/china-machado-for-vogue-patterns/
China Machado in Harper’s Bazaar, February 1959 (description for image on right)
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/fashion/china-machado-first-non-white-supermodel.html
China Machado in Harper’s Bazaar, February 1959 (text on right page)
https://emilywardwell.wordpress.com/2015/09/20/054/
John and Jackie Kennedy in Harper’s Bazaar, February 1961
screenshot from The Eye Has to Travel (2012)
Barbara Streisand in March 1966 issue of Vogue
https://yakymour.wordpress.com/2015/10/14/barbra-streisand-by-richard-avedon/
Barbara Streisand in March 1966 issue of Vogue (wardrobe description)
https://sophiakorver.blogspot.com/search/label/%22American%20Dior%22
Barbara Streisand in March 1966 issue of Vogue (historical reference)
http://barbra-archives.com/bjs_library/60s/vogue_march_1966.html
Barbara Streisand in March 1966 issue of Vogue (historical reference)
http://www.osmanahmed.co.uk/blog/2015/10/21/re-visiting-barbra-bender-and-sizzling-season-in-paris
Diana Vreeland in print dress, profile image
screenshot from The Eye Has to Travel (2012)
Diana Vreeland working at Costume Institute
screenshot from The Eye Has to Travel (2012)
Costume Institute opening night, aka Met Gala (circa 1970s)
screenshot from The Eye Has to Travel (2012)
Diana Vreeland, c.1914
https://www.nickharvilllibraries.com/blog/category/diana-vreeland
Vaslav Nijinsky
https://noelter.wordpress.com/